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Non-Homogeneous Backgrounds

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Until now, we have considered the vacuum to be an ‘empty’ state with all quantum numbers zero. In the following section, we replace that ‘empty’ vacuum state with some macroscopic background, which may in general be inhomogeneous and incoherent.

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Millington, P. (2014). Non-Homogeneous Backgrounds. In: Thermal Quantum Field Theory and Perturbative Non-Equilibrium Dynamics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01186-8_10

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